Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
Quotations
Silence
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
Silence is a source of great strength.
-Lao Tzu "Lao Tzu"
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Great souls suffer in silence.
-Friedrich Schiller
Things that are real are given and received in silence. God has been everlastingly working in silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His infinite silence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Meher Baba"
